226 The Battle of the Covenant (Part II)

In the face of the frontal attack of more than 5,000 Japanese troops, Luo Shangzhi was quite calm, and those Japanese soldiers also knew that the Ming army had sharp firearms and a large number of artillery, so they pushed a rather tall and thick shield cart and slowly advanced, and the infantry all hid behind the shield cart and followed, and they did not try to be fast, and it could be seen that they had a lot of experience in firearms combat, which was similar to the Japanese tactics that Luo Shangzhi encountered in the mountains of Bihuguan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The tactics of the Ming army to deal with the Japanese army are actually very simple, that is, one force to ten meetings, you have a shield car iron cannon, I will use large artillery, round by round bombardment shooting, first use solid bullets to kill your shield car, and then use flowering shells to deal with your military formation, and then change to a shotgun sweep, bird gun shooting, three waves of flow, a dozen and a quasi.

When Luo Shangzhi set up camp in the barracks, he prepared enough cover for the infantry, and the soldiers could safely hide behind the bunker and fire guns, not to mention that the range of the Japanese firearms was far inferior to the artillery of the Ming army, and the Ming army could intercept them at a long distance, so that they could not rush to the short range, and they did not even have a chance to shoot.

But Luo Shangzhi also observed that the Japanese army had some artillery, but it was not enough to pose a threat to the Ming army, but if the artillery was really fired, the Ming army may also have a lot of casualties, and it is not clear that the range of the Japanese artillery, but it can be said that the Ming army still has enough advantages and self-confidence in artillery, and the Japanese army cannot be compared with the Ming army in terms of quantity alone, which is a full embodiment of national strength.

The Japanese army slowly approached, Luo Shangzhi looked coldly at this team that had not yet been fought, thinking about the Japanese troops he had fought before, and felt that they belonged to two different camps, if the Tokugawa army was really stronger than the Toyotomi army, he would not wait for the Ming army to wipe out the Toyotomi army before mutiniing and seizing power, and he must have been defeated by them before, so he obediently surrendered, so the Ming army that annihilated the 150,000 Japanese army would not be weaker than this army at all.

It's just that the number of people is not enough, only 3,000, and there are still some worries about tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, more than 100 cannons are Luo Shangzhi's biggest reliance, and the firearms equipment rate of the southern soldiers is the highest, almost achieving a firearms ratio of 60 percent, relatively speaking, the field strength is not enough, Luo Shangzhi is only a 1,000-person field sword and shield troops, which is achieved in order to advance lightly, and he didn't think that he could hit the main force of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The muzzle of a hundred guns is facing the Japanese army that is slowly advancing in the distance, and the artillery is divided into three columns, the first column is a solid projectile, the second column is a flowering projectile, and the third column is a shotgun, the artillery tactics of the Ming army are already quite familiar with it, and they are very good at using artillery against the Japanese army, so even if they see so many Japanese troops, the Ming gunners are not afraid at all.

It's closer, it's closer, it's getting closer......

"Fire!"

Luo Shangzhi decisively ordered.

"Ignition! Fire!! Put!! ā€

"Boom Boom T

The artillery of the Ming army began to roar, one by one solid bullets carried an astonishing high temperature and speed towards the Japanese army's large array, one shot at a time, one shot at the Japanese army's large array, some hit the shield car, instantly hit it through and then destroyed, some of the accurate head was not enough, smashed in the Japanese military formation, a shot into the ground set off a wave of air rolling, instantly overturned a large area of Japanese troops, and some of the bad luck was directly stoned to death, a little luck was overturned and could still get up, but also palpitations.

The first round of test firing allowed the Ming gunners to roughly grasp the position of the Japanese army and the angle of the firing, and the next step was to reload the ammunition and focus on bombarding the Japanese shield car.

Honda Tadakatsu was in the rear of the large array, and it had not yet been affected, but seeing that there were so many artillery pieces of the Ming army, and the power of the shells was still very great, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, turned around and looked at Tokugawa Ieyasu's team, and found that there was no movement, so he continued to order the attack, and when the second wave of artillery fire of the Ming army came, Honda Tadakatsu found that 80% of the shield cars in front of the Ming army were greeted by the artillery of the Ming army, and the damage rate reached 60%, which obviously exceeded the greatest expectation in his heart.

The power of the Ming army's artillery and the elite of the gunners were far above the imagination.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was observing the battle situation on the front line at the top of the hills in the rear, instantly came to this conclusion, when he saw the Ming army's artillery sharply destroying his shield car, he was mentally prepared, but also a little hesitant and worried, without the cover of the shield car, his troops were equivalent to being exposed to the fire of the Ming army, which was definitely not a good thing for him, the Ming army's firearms were sharp, and the artillery was particularly powerful, without the cover of the shield car, his troops were not here to deliver food?

Unfortunately, his prediction was very accurate, and as soon as Luo Shangzhi saw that the shooting of the solid bullets had achieved good results, he immediately ordered the second team of flowering shells to step forward, load, ignite, fire, and fire a salvo with a boom, directly killing and wounding the Japanese army's large array.

This is not a solid bullet, this is a flowering bomb, a blast of gravel and lead flying, touching it will die and hurt to the touch, it will be blown apart, and there will be broken hands and legs that will be blown up, anyway, how miserable it is, a cannonball will blow up, it can always set off a bloody storm, Honda Tadashi is at the back of the big array, and before he faces the Ming army, he was blown through the head of his mount by a lead bullet that flew from nowhere, and the war horse that had been with him for a long time was directly smashed into the head melon seeds, and the red and white sprayed Honda Tadashi on the face, He fell directly to the battlefield, causing a wave of confusion.

The artillery of the Ming army continued to bombard without stopping, and the guns that fired solid shells went back to change the shells and then came back to fire, round after round, and the Japanese army was completely unable to continue to maintain, let alone advance, and within ten minutes, this elite army could no longer advance, and retreated directly, and the Ming army did not even use shotguns and birds.

The first engagement, ended with a complete victory for the Ming army, killing about four or five hundred Japanese soldiers, wounded and disabled, the main general Honda Tadakatsu's war horse was blown up and killed, the Japanese army was shaken, Tokugawa Ieyasu saw that it was not good, and immediately ordered the Honda Tadakatsu team to withdraw, he found that he did underestimate the combat effectiveness and firepower configuration of the Ming army, this group of people is not as high as his own Ming army's artillery ratio, how many artillery is there in the Ming army?

Artillery is quite reliable and terrible and very expensive luxury weapons in Japan, generally only a large daimyo army can be equipped with a few artillery, the utilization rate on the battlefield is not high, and the artillery tactics are also very backward, so in the face of such sharp artillery strikes of the Ming army, they basically have no power to fight back.

At this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu vaguely felt that he could probably understand why the 150,000 Toyotomi army would be defeated so badly in Korea.

So much artillery bombardment, such strict tactics, probably the reason for the defeat of the Toyotomi army.